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Review of Paraphotina (Mantodea: Photinaidae)
Agudelo, Antonio A; Rafael, José A.
Affiliation
  • Agudelo, Antonio A; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. Coordenação de Diversidade. Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia. Manaus. BR
  • Rafael, José A; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. Coordenação de Diversidade. Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia. Manaus. BR
Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) ; 33(6): e20160055, Dec. 2016. ilus, tab
Article in En | VETINDEX | ID: biblio-1504428
Responsible library: BR68.1
Localization: BR68.1
ABSTRACT
The number of studies on Neotropical mantises has been growing in recent years, and the systematics of Mantodea is now a dynamic field with noteworthy contributions. Several taxonomic revisions have been published recently. The taxonomy of Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915 is reviewed as part of current studies on systematics of Neotropical Mantodea. Currently, Paraphotina contains four species from South America P. caatingaensis (Menezes & Bravo, 2013) comb. nov., P. insolita (Rehn, 1941), P. occidentalis Lombardo, 1998 and P. reticulata (Saussure, 1871). Paraphotina venezuelana Beier, 1963 is a new junior synonym of P. insolita . Keys for the Paraphotina species are proposed. The distribution of Paraphotina species is apparently correlates with areas of endemism in the Amazonian and Cerrado regions.
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Full text: 1 Database: VETINDEX Main subject: Mantodea Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Zoologia (Curitiba) / Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) Year: 2016 Document type: Article / Project document

Full text: 1 Database: VETINDEX Main subject: Mantodea Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Zoologia (Curitiba) / Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) Year: 2016 Document type: Article / Project document